Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, added, “We estimate Apple iPhone captured a record 51 percent share of all smartphone wholesale revenues worldwide in Q4 2017. Apple iPhone generated a huge US$61 billion in the quarter, helped by solid demand for its premium X model, and Apple now accounts for more revenue than the rest of the entire global smartphone industry combined. Apple generated three times more smartphone revenue than nearest rival Samsung and 7 times more than Huawei. Apple iPhone’s average selling price is approaching US$800 and almost three times higher than the overall industry average. Apple iPhone is an incredible money-making machine.”

Woody Oh, Director at Strategy Analytics, added, “Huawei generated US$8 billion of global smartphone wholesale revenues to maintain its position as the world’s third largest vendor by turnover in Q4 2017. Huawei’s smartphone wholesale average selling price sits at US$205 today and it has by far the lowest pricing among the top-three smartphone players. If Huawei wants to grow its worldwide pricing and revenues even higher in the future, the company will need to grab additional marketshare in the high-value United States market.”

The full report, * Global Smartphone Revenue, ASP and Profit by Vendor by Price Tier: Q4 2017 * , is published by the Strategy Analytics Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service, details of which can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/yamnzgs2.

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